Institute of Education London

Dr Christine Han

• Qualifications and position:
  • DPhil, MSc, BA (Hons)
  • Lecturer in Education
• Faculty:
  • Faculty of Policy and Society
• Department:
  • Lifelong and Comparative Education
• Centre:
  • Centre for Learning and Life Chances in Knowledge Economies and Societies (LLAKES)
• Teaching:
  • Programme Leader, MA LLL (Singapore)
    Module Leader, Lifelong Learning: Theories and Perspectives (MA LLL (Singapore))
    Module Leader, Education and Development in Asia (MA Comparative Education)
• Research Projects:
  • Active Citizenship in the EU (European Commission grant)
    Japan and East Asia National Identities Education Network (Leverhulme Trust grant)
    Perceptions of Inequalities project (LLAKES)
    Curriculum Regimes project (LLAKES)
• Professional Activities:
  • 2011-date
    Team member, Active Citizenship in the EU, led by Bryony Hoskins (European Commission grant)
    

    2010-date
    Steering committee member, Japan and East Asia National Identities Education Network, led by Paul Morris (Leverhulme Trust grant)
    

    2009-date
    Leader, Curriculum Regimes project (LLAKES Centre)
    

    2008-date
    Team member and leader, qualitative data and analysis (from 2011), Perceptions of Inequalities project (LLAKES Centre)

• Conferences/presentations:
  • 'The relationship between forms of efficacy and future voting: initial analysis of the qualitative data from upper schools in England and Singapore', paper presented at the British Educational Research Association Annual Conference, 6-8 Sep 2011, Institute of Education London (with Bryony Hoskins and Jasmine Sim).
    

    'The relationship between forms of self-efficacy and Active Citizenship', paper presented at the British Educational Research Association Annual Conference, 6-8 Sep 2011, Institute of Education London (with Bryony Hoskins and Germ Janmaat)
    

    'Values and identity in educational research: an overview', Leverhulme Network Workshop, Hong Kong, 20 – 25 Apr 2011.
    

    ' "I can do anything I put my mind to": constructing the life-course through incidents and personal agency of young people with precarious lives', paper presented at the British Educational Research Association Conference 2010, 1 – 4 Sep 2010, University of Warwick (with Bryony Hoskins)
    

    'Creating good citizens, or a competitive workforce, or just plain political socialisation?: tensions in the aims of education in Singapore' at the 'Education as a Political Tool in Asia' symposium, Comparative and International Education Society 53rd Annual Conference, 'The Politics of Comparison', 22 – 26 March 2009, Charleston, South Carolina.
    

    'Singapore - creating good citizens, or a competitive workforce?', at the 'Education as a Political Tool in Asia' symposium, Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, 26 – 29 March, 2009, Chicago.
    

    'The Policy Synthesis Report of the "Stocktaking Study on Lifelong Learning for Democratic Citizenship through Adult Education" ', Lifelong Learning Education for Democratic Citizenship Project Final Conference, 16 - 18 Dec 2007, Berlin Wannseeforum (with Andy Green and Hugh Starkey)

• Personal Country Knowledge:
  • Singapore (education system, citizenship and moral education, lifelong learning), UK (citizenship)
• Languages Spoken:
  • Mandarin Chinese (Intermediate)
• Languages Written:
  • Mandarin Chinese (intermediate)
• Research Students:
  • (With Paul Morris) Khatera Khamsi: 'History Education for Nation Building: A Comparative Study of School Textbook Portrayals of the Japanese Occupation in Singapore and Malaysia'